Windows Support Engineer Contracts in England

Windows Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Windows Support Engineer daily rate in England is £200 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 485 621 710
Rank change year-on-year +136 +89 -93
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Support Engineer 46 25 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.052% 0.094%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.055% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 15 57
10th Percentile £122 £153 £140
25th Percentile £140 £173 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £200 £200
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.21%
75th Percentile £245 £245 £269
90th Percentile £450 £269 £425
UK median daily rate £175 £255 £200
% change year-on-year -31.37% +27.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 2
10th Percentile £16.25 £20.10 £18.25
25th Percentile £16.63 £21.75 £19.38
Median hourly rate £17.00 £25.00 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £18.00 £27.75 £30.63
90th Percentile £50.00 £29.10 £33.25
UK median hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -30.00% +42.86% +40.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 33,767 45,838 67,777
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.60% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,422 32,556 48,342
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,340 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.05 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Windows Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Windows Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Support Engineer in England

Windows Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Support Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Windows Support Engineer in England

Windows Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Support Engineer in England

Windows Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Support Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Support Engineer in England

Windows Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows Support Engineer in England

Windows Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Support Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +117 24 £175 -1.41%
East Midlands +22 7 £175 -18.60%
Midlands +21 7 £175 -18.60%
North of England +26 6 £168 -4.29% 1
East of England +15 5 £240 -4.00%
North West +16 4 £141 -19.43% 1
South East - 4 £225 -
Yorkshire +16 2 £238 -13.64%
Windows Support Engineer
UK

Windows Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Windows Support Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Windows Support Engineer in the job title.

1 46 (100.00%) Windows
2 22 (47.83%) Microsoft
3 21 (45.65%) Active Directory
4 17 (36.96%) Windows 7
4 17 (36.96%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (36.96%) Windows 10
5 16 (34.78%) Microsoft Office
6 14 (30.43%) Security Cleared
6 14 (30.43%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (28.26%) Windows Server
8 12 (26.09%) Customer Requirements
9 11 (23.91%) ServiceNow
9 11 (23.91%) SCCM
9 11 (23.91%) Linux
9 11 (23.91%) VPN
10 10 (21.74%) Finance
10 10 (21.74%) Social Skills
10 10 (21.74%) Customer Service
11 9 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
11 9 (19.57%) SLA
12 8 (17.39%) SC Cleared
12 8 (17.39%) Azure
13 7 (15.22%) VMware Infrastructure
13 7 (15.22%) ITIL
13 7 (15.22%) VMware
14 6 (13.04%) Banking
14 6 (13.04%) Time Management
14 6 (13.04%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (13.04%) Decision-Making
15 5 (10.87%) Release Management

Windows Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 16 (34.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (36.96%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (17.39%) Azure
3 5 (10.87%) Entra ID
4 4 (8.70%) AWS
5 2 (4.35%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (23.91%) VPN
2 5 (10.87%) Firewall
3 4 (8.70%) Ethernet
3 4 (8.70%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.35%) Wireless
5 1 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) JIRA
2 1 (2.17%) Git
General
1 14 (30.43%) Presentation Skills
2 10 (21.74%) Finance
2 10 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 9 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (13.04%) Banking
4 6 (13.04%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (8.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) .NET
1 2 (4.35%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Clustering
1 5 (10.87%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.52%) Hedge funds
2 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.35%) BYOD
3 2 (4.35%) iPad
3 2 (4.35%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 46 (100.00%) Windows
2 17 (36.96%) Windows 10
2 17 (36.96%) Windows 7
3 13 (28.26%) Windows Server
4 11 (23.91%) Linux
5 4 (8.70%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (8.70%) Windows Vista
6 2 (4.35%) Android
6 2 (4.35%) Apple iOS
6 2 (4.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.09%) Customer Requirements
2 10 (21.74%) Customer Service
3 7 (15.22%) ITIL
4 6 (13.04%) Decision-Making
4 6 (13.04%) Time Management
5 5 (10.87%) High Availability
5 5 (10.87%) Release Management
6 4 (8.70%) Customer Experience
6 4 (8.70%) Information Security
6 4 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (8.70%) Ticket Management
7 3 (6.52%) Inventory Management
7 3 (6.52%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (4.35%) Analytics
8 2 (4.35%) Asset Management
8 2 (4.35%) Data Analytics
8 2 (4.35%) Mobile Device Management
8 2 (4.35%) Service Management
8 2 (4.35%) Software Deployment
8 2 (4.35%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.35%) C#
1 2 (4.35%) F#
1 2 (4.35%) SQL
2 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (8.70%) Degree
4 4 (8.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.57%) SLA
2 2 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 21 (45.65%) Active Directory
2 7 (15.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (10.87%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 11 (23.91%) SCCM
2 4 (8.70%) Autotask
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.35%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (2.17%) Ansible
4 1 (2.17%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (2.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 22 (47.83%) Microsoft
2 11 (23.91%) ServiceNow
3 7 (15.22%) VMware
4 4 (8.70%) Cisco
4 4 (8.70%) Remedy
5 3 (6.52%) Altiris
6 2 (4.35%) Apple
6 2 (4.35%) Citrix
6 2 (4.35%) MobileIron
7 1 (2.17%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.17%) Dell
7 1 (2.17%) HP